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Asked whether he will ever practice photography again, Al Ani dismissed the question: “I miss it, but I feel too old for it and have suffered the loss of my ability to see and move about.” The eighty-five-year-old views the next generation of Iraqi photographers with mixed feelings. The country has lost many talented artists to emigration, and he is worried about his country’s cultural legacy. Most places he knew in the centre of old Baghdad simply do not exist any more. “I lived there, I grew up there, and I loved it very much,” he says. “All of it has been devastated, and most of it has vanished.”
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